In Episode 12, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Noson Yanofsky of Brooklyn College.

The team discuss ways of learning Quantum computing, foundations of Quantum mechanics, the existing and non-existing Quantum algorithms, and the limitations of human knowledge.

Noson S. Yanofsky has a Ph.D. in mathematics from The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He held a post-doctoral research position in McGill University in Montreal. Currently, he is a professor of computer science at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center. In addition to writing research papers, he has authored Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists with Mirco Mannucci (Cambridge University Press), The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (MIT Press), and Theoretical Computer Science for the Working Category Theorist (accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press). He is currently working on a book titled Monoidal Categories: A Unifying Concept in Mathematics, Physics, and Computers. 

Noson lives in Brooklyn with his wife and four children.

To hear more from Noson, please check out his book, Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists, or his many other publications.

Links to the books can be found here. 

http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/